What do I need to know?
Itās pretty good, no contract lets me use any phone I want
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Off the top of my head:
- Thereās more than 6 legs involved.
- No fiddling with an instrument, probably lots of fiddling around waiting for action to take place.
- Thereās bowling for dismissals with wickets.
- Each teamās turn is an innings. Singular, but plural.
- If itās England or thereās a former English colony involved, pretty sure thereās an afternoon break for tea.
- Thereās test matches that arenāt really a test.
- Thereās overs, but I donāt think thereās unders.
- You can hit for a century, which is worth more than hitting for a cycle but doesnāt take 100 years to do.
- Monty Python has a sketch about it.
it closed down my wifeās wednesday golf league
Iāll start there
Look up jomboy cricket breakdowns since he explains the rules using American sports terms.
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Always let your conscience be your guide
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i came her to say the same thing. i havenāt actually watched his cricket explanation, because iām not that interested, enjoy his other stuff though and figure if i ever want to know cricket iāll start with him.
Non-extensive high level explanation
- the word wicket has many different meanings, just go with it
Offense: game of pickle with a pair of batters/runners who try to score runs
- hit the ball and get one run every time the two partners run to the other base while carrying their bats
- you donāt have to swing or run if you donāt want to
- home runs are worth 6
- ground rule doubles are worth 4
Defense: need to get 10 of the teamās 11 players out (since the 11th wonāt have a partner)
- caught = fly outs
- bowled = pitching a strike that the batter doesnāt deflect away
- lbw = getting hit by pitch when the batter would have been bowled out
- run out = not making it to your base before the ball gets back
Varieties:
- Test = the long version which takes up to 5 days because the winning team needs to get the 10 outs twice
- ODI = 7 hours since there are only 50 overs (300 pitches) per side if not everyone gets out
- T20 = 3 hours since there are only 20 overs (120 pitches) per side if not everyone gets out
@knoath and others can chime in
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5 min highlight of the USA over Pakistan. This upset is along the lines of a D2 or D3 team with walk-on players tying a D1 former champion team in regulation, and then winning in a shootout.
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On an international level, teams generally represent a single country except for : -
West Indies (made up of several countries).
England (part of a country).
Occasionally there is a team from Scotland but I havenāt heard of one from Wales or Northern Ireland.
Additionally, England has played home games at Wales (which is not in England). Pakistan has played quite a few home games in UAE, because of terrorism threats in Pakistan.
ābackā to where?
Back to the ābaseā. Itās a run out if the ball (either being thrown or in a defenderās hand) knocks the bails (two little widgets) off the stumps (three vertical posts) before the runner (or their bat, as an extension of their body) gets back into the base/batterās box (just a line to cross).
I think weād dispute that description.
Unless the scientist/explorer/gold medal winner is from Scotland,Wales or Northern Ireland, then youāre fine with it? 
That is pretty much how it works. Andy Murray was Scottish when he wasnāt winning and British when he is in the eyes of the English.
However it is the case that England, Scotland and Wales are countries. Northern Irelandās status is disputed, it is sometimes described as a country, sometimes as a province. Great Britain consists of England, Scotland and Wales. United Kingdom consists of all four.
It is quite confusing. The other confusion is whether or not it is part of Europe. Officially, I guess it is but in common parlance (where Iām from), if somebody said they were going to Europe it would refer to the continent (not including UK).
We refer to Europe as the rest of Europe as if we werenāt part of it, especially since Brexit.
